Lining for preserving vessels.



H. E. 'vocum.

LINING FOR PRESERVING VESSELS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 27,1917.

1,265,858. Patented May 14, 1918.

HARRY E. YOCUM, OF HANCOCK, MARYLAND.

LIN'ING FOR PRESERVING VESSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mayia, 1918.

Application filed February 27, 1917. Serial No. 151,304.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY E. YOCUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hancock, in the county of Washington and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Linings for Preserving Vessels, of which the follow ing is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved lining for preserving cans or other preserving vessels and has as its primary object to provide a lining which may be arranged within substantially any conventional type of preserving can, as now in common use, to form a container for the contents thereof preventing contact of the said contents with the metal of the can and thus minimizing the chemical action of the said contents upon the can with its resultant effect upon the natural taste of the said contents.

The invention has as a further object to provide a lining so formed that it may be readily fitted into the container.

And the invention has as a still further object to so construct the lining that it may be easily struck as a blank by a single operation.

Other and incidental objects will appear as the description proceeds and in the drawings wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of the invention and wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a sectional view showing my improved lining arranged within a conventional type of preserving can and illustrating the manner in which the said linin is formed to completely inclose the fruit with- I in the can.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view showing in dotted lines, the manner in which the sections of the top flap of the lining are arranged to cooperate for closing the can at its upper end, and

Fig. 3' is a perspective view particularly showing the blank from which the lining is formed and illustrating in dotted lines, the manner in which the sections of the top flap are moved with respect to each other so that the said flap'may be easily inserted w1th1n the top of the can.

In carrying out the invention, my improved lining is formed from a blank of the type particularly shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings. This blank includes an elongated body 10 of equal width from end to end. Formed 011 the lower edge of the body 10 adjacent one extremity thereof is a substantially circular bottom flap 11 which, at its juncture with the body, is provided with a transverse fold line A and formed on the upper edge of the body opposite the said flap is a top flap 12. The top flap 12 is also substantially circular and is slit diametrically from the body 10 to divide the said flap into coacting sections. At the inner extremity of the said slit, the body is provided with a notch or slit 13. The purpose of this slit will presently appear.

In positioning the flaps 10 and 11, adjacent one extremity of the body, the said body thus provides a relatively short flap 14 at one side of the flaps 10 and 11 and a relatively long flap 15 at the opposite side thereof. The blank, as thus formed, is preferably formed from a single piece ofparafiin paper or other similar material and it will be observed that the blank is of such nature that it may be struck from the stock at one operation.

In Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings, I have illustrated my improved lining in connection with a conventional type of preserving can. This can is formed with a cylindrical body wall 16 and is closed at one end by a bottom wall 17 .At its oppositeend, the can is provided with a head 18 for receiving the can top 19, this top, as is usual, hermetically sealing the can. i

In fitting the lining within the can, the bottom flap 11 is first folded up toward the inner face of the body 10 of the lining at the fold line A when the short flap let of the body is turned inwardly toward the long flap 15. The long flap 15 is then folded about the short flap to form the body into a cylinder with the top flap 12 projecting upwardly from the upper edge thereof.

This cylinder is contracted until it will easily fit through the open end of the can and is moved downwardly therein until the bottom edge of the said cylinderabuts the bottom wall 17 of the can. The flaps 14: and 15 of the body 10 are then released when the resiliency of the lining will spring the said flaps outwardly to expand the cylinder until the body of the lining is engaged close against the cylindrical body wall 16 of the can. With" the body of the lining thus in position to form a container body within 

